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Being expected, I came. After many
opinions had been already pronounced, I was asked mine. I delivered one very
advantageous to the republic, and at the same time necessary for my own
interests. Abundance of corn and cheapness of price was demanded of me; as
if I had any influence in producing such a state of things as that. Things
were in a very different condition. I was pressed by eager expostulation
from many good men. I was unable to support the abuse of the wicked. I
proposed to entrust the business to an influential friend, not in order to
impose a burden on one to whom I was under such heavy obligations, (for I
would rather have sunk under it myself, than done that,) but because I saw,
what every one else saw, that, whatever we promised in behalf of Cnaeus
Pompeius, he would most easily accomplish by his integrity, wisdom, virtue,
and authority, and by his invariable good-fortune.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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